ἄγνωστος
ágnōstos · G57 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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not known, unknown
Pertaining to not being known
ExamplesActs 17:23 “For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Contrasting words 1 word
- φανερός phanerós · G5318 · well known, widely known, clearly known
- φανερός means 'manifest, visible, evident, known' — semantically opposite to ἄγνωστος 'unknown' in that what is φανερός is openly known and revealed, whereas what is ἄγνωστος is not known.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Not known, unknown28.27
- This adjective denotes what is not known, as in Acts 17:23's account of an altar inscribed, "TO AN UNKNOWN GOD."
Word family 25 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (from Homer down), unknown: Acts 17:23 (cf. B. D. American edition under the word ).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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